Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...
Several of the exhibits were portraits of shrewd Patron Vollard himself, who was a willing model for his many artist friends. Hearing that Renoir had always wanted to paint a bullfighter, Vollard had a gold-embroidered toreador suit made to his own measure, turned up at Renoir's studio in costume. He even offered to shave off his beard, but Renoir said that would be unnecessary: "You don't suppose you would be taken for a real torero, if you did? All I ask of you is not to go to sleep while you are sitting...
Critic. In Bogota, Colombia, a disgruntled movie patron set fire to the curtains on the stage...
...kind of turnabout of his 1938 invasion of Carnegie Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...
...groom runs a grocery store on Main Street and is a steady patron of our advertising columns. He has a good line of bargains this week. All summer he paid two cents more for butter than any other store in town...